A TAKEAWAY owner has admitted dumping waste outside another fast food outlet.

Irshad Ali, who runs The Curry Cottage, in Albert Road, Farnworth, pleaded guilty to ditching bin bags containing food waste at three locations across Bolton.

Among them was the Kurry Korner takeaway in Chorley Old Road, near to Bolton town centre.

Local residents blamed the owner, Abdul Kahar, and his business suffered as a result.

But at Bolton Magistrates Court on Tuesday, Ali admitted dumping waste there and at two other sites.

Council chiefs were only able to attribute the three offences to Ali, but magistrates said that it was likely he was responsible for more.

Ali, aged 44, of Gibraltar Street, Deane, left rotting chicken carcasses, oil drums and food containers in bags outside the Kurry Korner takeaway.

After Kurry Korner owner Mr Kahar was questioned by council officers, CCTV cameras were set up.

Two Asian men were spotted unloading waste from a red Fiat Punto outside the Kurry Korner early in the morning of March 23, 2004.

Among the waste were letters for Mr Ali's Farnworth takeaway, Catherine Waurdby, prosecuting, told the magistrates.

Ali admitted three offences of depositing, or causing or permitting waste to be deposited, without a waste transfer licence under the Environmental Protection Act.

One involved the Kurry Korner and other two counts related to waste dumped by Ali in Deane Road and in Gibraltar Street, near to his own home. The bags found in Gibraltar Street were full of maggots.

Ali will be sentenced on February 7.

Mrs Waurdby said: "This sort of offence causes a public health risk and is estimated to cost Bolton Council £1.25million every year."

Defending, Mohamed Patel said Ali, a father-of-two, had fallen on hard times and was forced to dump waste because he could no longer afford to pay Bolton Council to collect it.

Chairman of the Bench James Mitchenson said: "In light of what we have heard, it is highly unlikely that they were the only offences you committed."